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Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Whanau Ora Chair on the rise in the number of children in care suffering from abuse or neglect · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Numbers out of ordering a tamadiki getting bleaker. The Independent
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  Speaker 1: Children's Monitor says abuse in state here is rising. Five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty children are harmed in twenty four to
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  Speaker 1: twenty five. That's up from five hundred and seven the
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  Speaker 1: year before. That's ten percent of the kids totally in care.
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  Speaker 1: Medipecket Okawa Tate is fun at Order Commission Agency chair
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning Medipica.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Ryan.
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  Speaker 1: Now this picture hasn't moved in the six years of
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  Speaker 1: this report. Now it was bad under labor, bad under national.
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  Speaker 1: Is anyone around the world doing this better?
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  Speaker 2: Well, certainly I'd like to think so, because I can't
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  Speaker 2: understand why the dial hasn't moved for our children in
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  Speaker 2: care in New Zealand, and unfortunately, as the report just says,
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  Speaker 2: things have not improved. All the attention that seems to
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  Speaker 2: come on to removing the children from their families and
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  Speaker 2: yet when they do come into care, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: they get abused in care and the minimum standards of
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  Speaker 2: care are not adhered to. So rather than kicking the
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  Speaker 2: can down the road, I think it's giving the child
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  Speaker 2: down the road and things are just not changing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I suppose nine. I mean, let's look, the
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  Speaker 1: ten percent are being abused or neglected in state care,
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  Speaker 1: which is terrible, but that means ninety percent aren't. Does
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  Speaker 1: that mean that they are better off you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean, better off than being in the home.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's not really, because what the report clearly says
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  Speaker 2: is that for a lot of the children in care,
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  Speaker 2: their educational requirements are not being met. Certainly, then their
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  Speaker 2: health needs are not being met. And so we've we've
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  Speaker 2: got a number of agencies that know that they are
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  Speaker 2: paid to do a particular job for children who are
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  Speaker 2: already in a vulnerable situation, who need their care and
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  Speaker 2: attention and are not being prioritized. So it does not
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  Speaker 2: look good for those that should be making every effort
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  Speaker 2: to change and turn around the lives of children who
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  Speaker 2: are already in a vulnerable position.
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  Speaker 1: No, their lives have been terrible already because this will
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  Speaker 1: They got there in the first place because they were,
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  Speaker 1: as the report says, you know, sexually abuse by a
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  Speaker 1: family member or they had a parent on meth who
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  Speaker 1: just didn't care about them is terrible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is, but sometimes I think we should be
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  Speaker 2: actually looking at what are we doing to change those
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  Speaker 2: uh and those issues as well, those factors, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: because those factors haven't changed either. So all we're doing,
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  Speaker 2: we're reacting when something happens putting the child in a
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  Speaker 2: situation where we know from the continuation of the reports
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  Speaker 2: that we receive that we see that nothing will change
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  Speaker 2: for them in state care anyway. So you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't if you don't start to address those those
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  Speaker 2: factors in the home that are causing children to be
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  Speaker 2: at risk, that's one thing. And if you don't address
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  Speaker 2: and make sure that the minimum standards of care that
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  Speaker 2: they should be receiving when they go into care are
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  Speaker 2: happening and being prioritized, then it's just going to be
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  Speaker 2: one report after another, a lot of dollars going in
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  Speaker 2: with no positive outcomes for the children. And this has
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  Speaker 2: happening year after year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, six years on the Trump Medipecker, appreciate your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Thank you many. You Get oka with Tate For.
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